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days following his release. 945 E Fakhroo resumed his political career. After

Bahrain’s independence in 1971, he was elected to participate in the establishment

of the country’s constitution as a member of Bahrain’s General Assembly in 1973

and was also elected as an MP in 1974. He died on 20 February 2005. 946 Kamal-el-

Deen according to Belgrave’s diary entry on 16 January 1957, asked the cleric to

travel away from Bahrain to Iraq for an unspecified period of time. 947 He later

returned to Bahrain and died in 1974 and was buried in Manama. 948

Of all the frontline members of the NUC the most fortunate was Al-Shamlan.

After his release from St Helena and departure to London, he lived in Damascus until

1971 when he returned to Bahrain. He was elected to Bahrain’s General Assembly

in 1973. Al-Shamlan was appointed by the government as ambassador to Egypt and

subsequently to Tunisia. He suffered from hemiplegia and was sent to Britain and

the US for treatment. Following his return he was visited by the Ruler of Bahrain.

On 30 December 1988, Al-Shamlan suffered a stroke that led to his death. He was

buried in Muharraq. 949 An avenue in Umm Al-Hassam in Manama was named after

the former NUC’s frontline member.

As for the Baghdad Pact, the alliance that tore the Middle East apart, the

Iraqis eventually withdrew from the Pact in 1959 following the bloody overthrow of

945 ‘Akhar Qiyadi ala gayid Il-Hayat min Hayet Al-Itihad Al-Watani’ [The Last Member Remaining from
the National Union Committee], Al-Wasat, 12 October 2002, 2.
946 ‘Raheel Akher Qiyadat Al-Hay’eh’ [The Passing of the National Union’s Last Leaders], Al-Dimokrati,
March 2005, 10.
947 Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave’s Personal Diaries, 16 January 1957.
948 E.A. Kamal-el-Deen, Thakerat Al-Watan [A Nation’s Memory] (Manama: 2006), 58-61.
949 L. Nasr and A. Al-Moasawi, ‘Ma’tah Abdul-Aziz Al-Shamlan… Wa tabqah Mawaqifuhu Al-Wataniyah
Al-Khalidah’ [Abdul-Aziz Al-Shamlan Died… But his Immortal National Stance Remains], Akhbar Al-
Khaleej, 2 January 1989, 3.

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